COSCO Container Lines (COSCON), the shipping line of China COSCO Holdings, will expand its space swap with China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) on the Asia-Europe and Asia-Mediterranean trades in 2012.

Through this cooperation, COSCON can enlarge port coverage, increase service frequency, and enhance transit time to some major calling ports, the company said in a statement on December 28.

The swap enables COSCON to provide three additional loops to the existing Asia-Europe and Asia-Mediterranean loops. Rotations of the new loops are as follows: